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Mark and Mary Stevens give $200 million to power AI research across USC
The university will name the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence to honor their investment in research and innovation at the intersections of AI and health sciences, business, security and the arts.
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Across USC Viterbi and Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, alumni point to industry-aligned courses, hands-on learning, powerful Trojan network and reputable faculty lineup as key drivers of career success in a competitive job market
CLASS OF 2026 – Mitchell Kirby has a talent for converting civil and environmental engineering concepts into promising business models. As he prepares to graduate, he's chosen to bet on a venture that takes him back to his roots.
CLASS OF 2026 - The daughter of Turkish immigrant physicians, Maui-raised Alara Berkmen is graduating from USC Viterbi with a bachelor's in Biomedical Engineering on the pre-med track, a business club she built from scratch, and a hard-won clarity about who she wants to be and why.
CLASS OF 2026 - Graduating USC Viterbi master's student Jose Hernandez applies a systems mindset and tenacity to everything he does-with results.
Co-hosted by USC Viterbi and the National Academy of Engineering, the Engineering for Energy Demands Summit 2026 convened leaders to assess trends in investment, technology, and workforce adaptation that are shaping the future of energy systems.
Spearheaded by USC Viterbi PhD students, the annual SoCal Civil and Environmental Research Symposium (SoCal CEERS) connects academic research and industry practice for the Southern California CEE community.
Annual ceremony highlights the contributions of staff and faculty who support the school’s research, teaching and operations.
CLASS OF 2026 - Raised near campus but worlds away from it, this first-generation Eritrean American found her calling in a major she had never heard of, earned a full-ride scholarship, and is graduating this May with two Viterbi degrees and a commencement speech to deliver.
A student startup concept for sorting trash at large-scale venues scooped the top prize at the Das Family Innovate X LA Competition, where students apply civil & environmental engineering concepts to develop high-impact urban solutions for Los Angeles and beyond.
CLASS OF 2026 - The first in her family to earn a bachelor's and a graduate degree, this USC Viterbi graduate completed her Master's in Medical Imaging and Imaging Informatics from Dallas, Texas, working full-time and 1,500 miles from campus, with an entire family ready to fly in and watch her cross the stage.
CLASS OF 2026 - From a rivalry win over UCLA to one of the Big Ten's highest academic honors, the USC women’s water polo captain and USC Viterbi graduating senior is redefining what leadership looks like.
From healthcare diagnostics to electric mobility, founders pitched real-world solutions at USC Viterbi’s inaugural Startup Showcase.
ISE sophomore Mila Mattson helps lead 10-member team to victory
CLASS OF 2026 - A graduating team of seniors at USC's Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering have turned a class assignment into a startup - one with the potential to change how doctors assess and treat neurodegenerative disease.
CLASS OF 2026 - The graduating USC Viterbi senior blends research, leadership and musical theater to create, contribute and connect
USC researchers brought 13 papers to ICASSP this year, highlighted by a plenary talk from Shrikanth Narayanan
CLASS OF 2026 - Having earned her Bachelor's in Industrial & Systems Engineering in December 2025, this USC Viterbi graduate is now crossing the finish line of her Master's in Engineering Management - and she's just getting started.
CLASS OF 2026 - When Duke and Wellington Bristow cross the stage this May, they'll be completing something their father started decades ago - a family tradition of engineering that's now four members deep.
CLASS OF 2026 - Graduating PhD candidate Abel Salinas used his time at USC Information Sciences Institute to develop CommonGround: an AI platform that helps organizations forecast violence and civil unrest, enabling them to proactively protect people, operations and supply chains.
CLASS OF 2026 - For graduating USC Viterbi senior Avery Gonzales, engineering and running follow the same logic: break the system down, find inefficiencies and keep improving. That mindset has taken her from a struggling 8th grader to a Boston Marathon qualifier, and from ISE student to a future full-time role at United Airlines.
CLASS OF 2026 - The first engineer in her family, this Industrial & Systems Engineering graduate from USC Viterbi's Daniel J. Epstein Department is heading to PwC this fall - with two degrees, a passport full of band trips, and a philosophy she learned the hard way.
CLASS OF 2026 - From building LEGO airplanes as a kid to winning back-to-back AIAA regional awards and co-founding USC's Human-Powered Flight Research Team, Long Beach native Nicholas Lototsky is finishing his bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering at USC Viterbi the same way he started it: full throttle.
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By combining high-resolution satellite data, terrain data and realistic fire simulations, USC Viterbi researchers have developed a reconstruction and prediction tool for making informed decisions when tackling catastrophic wildfires.
How to follow the peak experience of a lunar landing? Earn a graduate degree from USC.
USC Viterbi senior Nicholas Kim, a biomedical engineering major, led the landmark study with hopes that it could one day help improve the treatment of dementia and other brain disorders.
New research from the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at USC Viterbi shows how the organization of electrons can reshape how a material responds to light - opening previously inconceivable possibilities for optical and quantum technologies.
Professor Amy Childress recognized by the NAE for transforming wastewater into clean water and bridging academia with the real world
USC Viterbi Researcher Received Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program Award With Upcoming Study on Dexterous Robotics
A discovery using graphene has produced a record-breaking high-temperature memory device, with implications for space exploration, deep-earth drilling, and the future of AI hardware.
ISE faculty wins five competitive awards for work in AI, transportation, public health, mathematics and education
USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Rooted in an interdisciplinary approach, the school, a unit of USC Viterbi, serves as the hub for advanced computing research and education at USC.
Recent Highlights
A new study by USC Viterbi examining over 1.27 million federal complaints finds that older Americans and veterans are consistently receiving slower responses from financial companies, and the gap is getting worse right as the watchdog agency meant to protect them faces uncertainty.
USC Center for AI in Society Celebrated 10th Anniversary and Hosted Annual Symposium Featuring AI Research Across the University
Researchers and industry leaders across engineering, law, philosophy, business and more gathered to discuss key issues in ethical and trustworthy AI at IETC's first summit
USC researchers set record for oral presentations at ICLR 2026, with key breakthroughs in language model reliability, multimodal reasoning and robotics
An Innovative
School-Within-A-School
Operating as a “school-within-a-school” under USC Viterbi, the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence consists of the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science (CS), the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and the Division of Computing Education (DCE). Moreover, the School partners closely with USC Viterbi’s two powerhouse institutes, the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT).
Published on October 11th, 2016
Last updated on May 14th, 2026